Serving static files: a comparison between Apache, Nginx, Varnish and G-WANUpdate 1 (Mar 16, 2011): Apache MPM-Event benchmark added Update 2 (Mar 16, 2011): Second run of Varnish benchmark added Update 3 (Mar 16, 2011): Cherokee benchmark added Update 4 (Mar 25, 2011): New benchmark with the optimized settings is available Introduction Apache is the de facto web server on Unix system. Nginx is nowadays a popular and performant web server for serving static files (i.e. s
